Merry Jiwei

I was born in the 12th year of the Xixia Dynasty, because I saved the life of the empress dowager's grandmother in a hundred days, and was named "Golden Boy" by her elders.

My mother said at the time: "The queen mother is the reincarnation of the Lafayette, and Yinger is the golden boy, so it is natural to escort the Lafayette."

Grandma Huang was overjoyed, pointed at my mother and said, "Your status is noble, and you really speak differently."

I don't know if my mother was too happy, and she drove west of Hexi within a year after returning.A year later, my father drove away with me.So this king likes to raise this kind of animal to ride in the mansion if he has nothing to do. He doesn't make landscapes, so it's convenient to visit relatives and friends.

The empress dowager's grandma said that I was adopted by the current emperor as the No. 19 son. In fact, the emperor does not have many sons, only four in total.But under the spare no efforts of the empress dowager's grandma in recruiting troops, the number of the emperor's own sons suddenly exceeded twenty.

Once my father and mother passed away, my orphan prince was favored by the emperor's grandma.In fact, I don't really want this, because as many people give gifts, there are more people who use hidden guns behind their backs.

Among the princes of the current dynasty, I am the most favored by others, so naturally there is someone who is the least favored, and that is my second elder brother, the crown prince Yuan Lin.

Yuan Lin's mother is Zi Ji, the authentic daughter of the Zi family. Many people say that the reason why Grandma Huang chose the second brother is purely for the sake of weighing power. After all, although the Zi family's prince is gone, the Zi family's power still remains exist.

The Zi family is divided into Dongzi and Xizi. It is said that Dongzi produces counselors and Xizi produces warlocks.At that time, I felt that this was not a good name. After thinking about it, I felt that it was saying that the Zi family was a liar.

My second brother is an honest person, one is one tael, the other is two taels, he calculates clearly and clearly.

In this way, I am more at ease. After all, it is better to know the price than not to know.So I am not only the most favored by Grandma Huang, but also the younger brother who spends the longest time with the prince's elder brother.I often hear someone sigh and say, "Don't look at Jin Wang being young, he must be a great person when he grows up!"

I listened to these gossip, although I don't know who said it, but I'm sure he must not be from Xizi.

It was Lidong that year, and I went to Yangzhou with the prince.

On this day, there was heavy snow falling from the sky.The climate in the south of the Yangtze River is warm. Even on this extremely cold day, the ground is always covered with snow and not frozen. The pure white snowflakes fall into the Slender West Lake in circles. They swirl on the lake surface and let the water flow away. The lake water is still as clear as ice. Bi, a thousand feet will see the bottom.

In such a cold and freezing day, the Slender West Lake should have been filled with the sounds of people and birds, but Yangzhou is famous for its fireworks, and soon a flower boat came slowly. Jiangxin enjoys the snow.These literati and poets...of course it's me and the prince brother Yuanlin.

The flower boat circled around and came to the shore, and I heard someone yelling: "Oh my god, this guest officer! Seeing your dark clouded face and red eyes, I'm afraid there will be bloodshed!"

A thin man with a goatee and a yellow old Taoist uniform stopped passers-by.He was blind in one eye, but his good eye, which was exposed through the blindfold, was bright and energetic.

"Smelly Taoist priest..." The man grabbed the Taoist priest and shouted, "You dare say that I have a bloody disaster!" His face was red, and saliva was flying from his mouth.

The Taoist tried hard to avoid the spit, and said with a smile: "No, no, sir. It's your face that said it, not a little Taoist talking nonsense."

The man laughed and said, "Then... have you looked in the mirror?"

The Taoist laughed and said, "Of course Xiaodao has a picture when he goes out in the morning, but he didn't take a picture just now. Xiaodao is not as good as you, big brother, so you don't need to look in the mirror all the time!"

The man laughed for a while, and said intermittently: "Since you have looked in the mirror, then you, you...why don't you know that you have a bloody disaster today?"

"Blood... bloody disaster!" Before the one-eyed Taoist could recover, the man had already punched him down.

"Something's wrong, run away!"

The man hit a folding fan with one punch.He slammed down hard, but it was difficult to shake it!

He widened his eyes, and pressed his fist down with all his strength, only to see the folding fan open suddenly.In a blink of an eye, the folding fan hit him firmly on the forehead.

The man stumbled back a few steps, only to hear the Taoist shake his head and say: "Blood and light disaster, blood and light disaster!"

The man touched the corner of his eye, and sure enough, he saw a bloodstain in his palm.He stood there in a daze for a while, and when he looked up, he saw a casual young man waving a folding fan in the snow.

The big man seemed to realize that he was the one who hurt him, and rushed over with a roar.I only heard the young man muttering: "It's true, it's true!"

The man really threw himself into the snow and fell asleep in the middle of the ice and snow.

"Tsk, tsk, second uncle, you've lost your sight again." The young man shook his head and shook his fan.

"This man's face is red, his ears are red, and his forehead is blue. It's not a sign of blood!" The Taoist said in disbelief.

The young man smiled, his appearance is actually very ordinary.It's just this smile, there is a kind of chicness that sees through the world and has nothing to do with coming and going.

He said: "This man's face is red and his ears are red, his mouth smells of alcohol, he is clearly an alcoholic."

The Taoist pointed to the drunk man who fell to the ground, and said forcefully, "He saw blood, so it's not a bloody disaster!"

It seems that this big man is also considered unlucky, and I smiled slightly when I ran into a warlock with a bodyguard.

There was a lot of noise on the shore, and calm was restored.In this kind of famine, except for me, who was watching the fun on the boat, everyone else was in a hurry, for fear of getting into trouble.

The flower boat leaned on the shore for a while, and then continued to swim in the lake.The boat drifted far away, and I turned my head to look at the young man again. He had long hair tied up with a hemp rope, and he was wearing a pair of broken shoes. He looked extremely miserable.

But the young man was holding a folding fan in his hand, as if he was dressed in a brocade suit, and his expression was quite unrestrained and unrestrained, where there was no despondency, under the snow-covered sky, he was really impressive.So to say that the current emperor is actually the first one I saw.

We swam across the lake and went back to the inn for dinner.Yangzhou is rich in the world, but there is a famine in the surrounding area, so there are many refugees in the city, especially around the inns, there are even more people around.

The crown prince Yuanlin lightly ordered to give some money to the victims. Since the crown prince gave the order, it was naturally the will, but he always only had the will but never paid. All his subordinates looked at me eagerly.

The most terrible thing about me is my soft heart, but every time my heart softens, I will regret it.So after a while of fuss, I touched my empty pocket and regretted it for a while.

At this time someone broke in, it was the young man I saw by the lake.He rushed in all the way, out of breath, or making too much noise, my second brother turned to look at him.

The man froze immediately.My second brother's appearance, not to mention the Xixia Dynasty, even the entire Xixia Kingdom is hard to find a second one.

Although the second brother is away from home, he is not the outfit of a Jiang Hu person at all.It was the kind of toga, with layer upon layer of inner garments, middle coats, collars of coats, and robes swirling down, surrounding him, making him look extremely graceful, with an indescribably noble air, as if he was born with It is high above others.

He has long eyebrows reaching his temples, his eyes are as black as lacquer, and he is extremely handsome.Against the swaying tree shadows outside the inn, the fallen leaves flutter down in disorder, like a coherent picture scroll, the color of heaven and man.

Therefore, Hu Bugui was dumbfounded, but I can forgive him.

I went up and yelled, and said, "Hey, you hit me just now!" I took out a small beetle from my arms, the little beetle had been hit to pieces, and said angrily, "You hit me to death!" My love bug, how will you pay me?"

The man turned his eyes reluctantly and frowned slightly.I found that this man's facial features were normal, but his eyebrows were extremely handsome, thick and black, and clean like two distant mountains, revealing a kind of wisdom.

The second elder brother had already turned his head away, but when I made a fuss, he turned his head away again.The young man immediately changed the impatience on his face, so he gave me a long bow, got up and opened the folding fan and smiled smartly: "Little brother, I bumped into you just now, and it was my fault."

Maybe I was wrong when I said that the person I saw at first sight was Zi Shiwei.Because the first thing I saw was Hu Bugui, I raised my eyebrows and said, "Then you are so-so, pay me 100 taels of silver!"

"100 taels of silver?!" Hu Bugui yelled, his unrestrained attitude suddenly disappeared.He shook his fan desperately, covered his mouth and said in a low voice: "Little brother, look at the rags I'm wearing, how can I get 100 taels of silver?"

I pointed at his shirt and said with a smile: "Your linen shirt looks tattered, but it was made by Cheng Donglai, the number one weapon in the Jianghu. The golden meteorite embedded in it makes this shirt invulnerable to swords and guns. It is the best in the Jianghu." You are one of the treasures of the world. Although your broken shoes look bad, you can tell that the inside is made of fur and the armpit of a thousand foxes. There is no such thing as a thousand pieces of gold, but there are hundreds of pieces of gold."

Hu Bugui's fan fluttered up and down, looked me up and down, groaned in a low voice, and murmured: "It's unlucky to go out, it's unlucky to go out, and I ran into a pawnbroker."

Hu Bugui put away his folding fan, and put on a bargaining posture: "It's just that you are just a small beetle, if you want a mere penny, it's worth 100 taels of silver."

"Little beetle, you call it a small beetle?" I said with tears in my eyes, "It has a name, it's called Yuanbao!"

"Okay, okay!" Hu Bugui seemed to really want to get rid of me quickly, took out Erwen Qian from his pocket, and said, "I'll pay you Erwen Qian!"

"If you kill Yuanbao, you will pay Erwen money?" Then I said angrily, "Do you know that I treat it like a brother? Now that it is gone, you will pay me Erwen money?!"

Hu Bugui was yelled at me so that his ears buzzed, he took out a money bag from his arms, and before I opened it, I snatched it and poured out all the money in it.

A total of more than ten taels of silver.The tears on my face were wiped away immediately, and I said contemptuously: "Seeing how you are dressed so deeply, it turns out that you really have no money!" Flipping my hands, I snorted, "This money purse is broken. , but it is embroidered with gold thread, even if it is used to pay the bill."

"I thought I was a court servant at the pawn shop, so you are clearly a robber!" Hu Bugui's eyes were burning, smoke was rising from his head, and he wanted to be violent on purpose.

I turned my head to the young man in the room and called out, "Brother..."

The fire in Hu Bugui's eyes was instantly extinguished, he immediately puffed up his chest, and calmly waved his fan, showing the demeanor of an outsider who does not compete with ordinary people.

The second brother stood up and walked out, when passing by Hu Bugui, he just glanced at him lightly.Hu Bugui seemed to have a heartbeat again, and when his heartbeat passed, my second brother naturally disappeared.

He yelled loudly, and rushed out the door immediately, only to see the shadows of people on the street, and there was no sign of the second brother.He was so angry that he didn't know whether it was a pity that he was wronged and generous with the tens of taels of silver, or that he lost the trace of his second brother.In fact, I was less than ten steps behind him, and he didn't even notice... It's a pity.

In the courtyard across the street, I threw the money bag on the table.

A servant next to him counted the money and said in a low voice: "My lord, I received 15 taels of silver. I think this broken bag is worth a lot of money..."

He picked up his fingers and just counted, I already said: "Five taels of gold."

The boy's eyelids twitched, and he said, "My lord, you are so accurate!"

I weighed the purse and said with a smile, "This is the embroidery of Shen Sanniang in Suzhou, but let alone the embroidery, even the gold on it is worth a lot of money, five liang of gold is not much more!"

"This is a fat sheep!" the boy clicked his tongue.

I rubbed my chin and said, "It's a pity, how come the local officials donate so little recently!"

The boy glanced at me, hesitated to speak, I raised my eyebrows and said, "Speak up if you have something to say!"

The little servant said: "Ten days ago, the magistrate of Zuo County came to the door and offered the prince a piece of Agarwood Mountain. You said, you want to use gold as a support, and you need to be as tall as you alone, and you also said that in this way, the spring breeze can blow your face, and the fragrance is like spring flowers. , Now I heard that the left county magistrate is selling his house everywhere.

"Five days ago, Li Daotai presented a calligraphy to the lord. You also said that the Yangbai Ziyu scroll could not highlight the value of this calligraphy, and you needed two scrolls as big as your fist. I heard that Mr. Daotai did not raise enough money. I bought these two shafts the size of fists, and I was so impatient that I got angry, and I was overwhelmed for a while, and I haven't woken up yet. So..." The young man glanced at me, and then said: "The officials are too scared to come to the door. gone."

With a sad face on my face, I said: "Who made these officials all arty, wouldn't it be appropriate to send money directly to the door!" I waved my hand and said: "Let's take a look at the bill that the second brother gave us!"

The boy responded, opened the box and took a scroll.Once opened, it is a full foot long, and all kinds of names are written in tiny characters, such as: trample on a 300-year-old green brick in the Prince's Mansion, and 100 taels of silver; smash a 300-year-old tea bowl in the Prince's Mansion, with silver patterns 500 taels...

The more I looked, the more worried I became, and the little servant also said under pressure: "Are you saying it's strange? The Prince's Mansion has only been built for decades, so why are all the things inside it 300 years ago...My lord, when did you get scared to death again?" A very precious fish in the lake of the Prince's Mansion? The Ziwei Lake in the Prince's Mansion is thousands of feet wide, and you can still kill a small fish in it?!"

I clapped my hands and said, "Yuan Bao, you are right, I'm going to find my second brother to discuss it!"

Yuan Bao was startled, grabbed him, and said, "No more, my lord, the bill used to be only three feet long. Now it's so long, it's all the result of your theory."

I was discouraged all of a sudden, rolled up the bill angrily, and said, "It's better to find a way to make more money!"

My master and servant were talking, when a servant came in from outside, bowed and said: "My servant, I will see Prince Jin. The crown prince invites you to come and have dinner."

We exchanged quick glances, with mixed expressions of surprise and surprise.I said, "Forget it..."

Yuan Bao whispered: "Be careful, the prince's meals are always extremely expensive..."

I woke up immediately, he coughed and said: "My lord, let me ask you, I just saw my second brother in the inn, what is he doing there?"

"Back to Prince Jin. The crown prince settled some famine refugees there a few days ago, and I will go to visit them today."

"that's it?"

"Yes."

I was overjoyed and stood up from my chair.He raised his hand, and just about to say something about dinner, the servant said again: "The prince is also very merciful, and gave each household ten taels of silver, and sent them back to their hometown to settle down."

After he finished his sentence, I immediately yelled, fell back into the chair, and clutched my stomach.

Yuan Bao immediately said: "Ah, Lord Jin, you must have eaten enough just now..."

I immediately understood, nodded and said: "The mountain treasures just now are really... really let me eat."

The servant hesitated for a moment, then said: "The slave will go back and report to the crown prince, saying that the prince has already used it."

"I've used it, I've used it, second brother, please feel free to use it yourself!"

After the servant left, the master and servant were greatly relieved.

My stomach gurgled a few times, Yuan Bao said: "My lord, then I'll bring up the delicacies, and you can continue to eat."

I waved my hand to urge him to go quickly, and after a while Yuan Bao came up with two pieces of steaming sweet potatoes.I was overjoyed, just as I was about to reach out to take it, someone from outside said: "The little man Yuan Qi kowtowed to Prince Jin!"

"Yuanqi?" I frowned slightly.

"Prince Fu Wang's people..." Yuan Bao whispered.

I immediately waved my hand, and Yuan Bao would take down the plate of treasures.

When Yuan Qi stepped into the threshold, he saw that he was handsome, but he was not young, but his face was white and beardless, which gave people a sense of femininity.

"It turned out to be the chief manager of the eldest brother. Yuanbao, pour tea..."

Yuan Bao replied yes, and served the tea set not long after.Yuan Qi is also a well-informed person, and he saw that the set of blue and white tea bowls had pure and steady hair color, exquisite composition and uniform design and color.

Yuan Qi thanked him, took the tea bowl, skimmed off the tea foam, and couldn't help but say good tea.He laughed and said, "This must be tea from Huzhou in western Zhejiang..."

I answered yes lightly.

Yuan Qi took another sip, and said, "Lu Yu once said that it is not advisable to pick tea too early. If it is too early, the taste will not be complete, and if it is too late, the spirit will be lost. This tea is full of flavor and fragrance. It must have been picked five days before Guyu."

Yuan Bao praised, and said, "It seems that the chief manager is an expert in tea tasting."

I frowned and said, "Even so, this tea is still hard to drink. I can't find any good things in this kind of countryside. Forget it, Yuan Bao, this tea is hard to drink. Go and get a flower cup, let me wash my hands, Don't waste it either."

Yuan Bao responded immediately, and a flower cup with blue dragon pattern was brought up, with a few fragrant flowers scattered inside.I slowly poured the tea into it, stretched my well-maintained, fair and slender fingers into it, and washed it.

Yuan Qi couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

Yuan Bao said: "My lord, it's no wonder the lord, the lord only likes to drink bird's beak. How can he catch this kind of ordinary tea."

"Bird mouth?"

"There are some places in the Grand Canyon of West Zhejiang, where the tea leaves are the best of nature because of the essence of heaven and earth. Because only the terrain is steep there, only birds can usually reach them. That's why people call this kind of tea Bird's Mouth, but it's outside. It takes one tael of gold to buy one tael!”

"Yuan Bao, how many times have I told you, don't pick up gold every now and then, it will stain your ears!"

I pulled out my hand, and Yuan Bao immediately handed over the silk, claiming yes.

Yuan Qi had a strange expression.

I know he must be thinking in his heart, no wonder people say that King Jin is young but absurd, extravagant and extravagant, and no one can match him.

He smiled and said, "Sure enough, only something like a bird's beak can be worthy of the status of a prince." He whispered: "My lord, I have a few words to say, I wonder if I can give the slave some time alone... ..."

I waved my hand, and Yuan Bao stepped back tactfully.

Yuan Qi nodded his thanks, and said in a low voice: "My lord has always been on good terms with our lord, so this servant will not go around talking to him. Our lord wants to know when the prince will return?"

I yawned, and said: "It's just a few days. Frankly speaking, I am exhausted from serving this second brother. He made a private visit in secret, and put on such a posture, but this mediation and everything are all handled by me. Commitment, the cost of manpower and material resources is countless, let alone that."

Yuan Qi nodded again and again, and said: "This prince also knows that the original prince's affairs should not be borne by you alone..." He took out a kit from his bosom, and said: "What's more, our prince and you Brotherly love is deep, and we should bear it together!"

I turned my head and glanced, Yuan Qi slightly opened the kit, and saw a dozen or so finger-sized pearls inside, these pearls were even in size, perfectly natural, obviously the best.

When I saw it, my heart was filled with joy, I smiled happily, I reached out to take it, and said: "It's hard for the elder brother to know the suffering of the younger brother. Although the etiquette is light, but the affection is heavy, I will record it."